BOUNDING HUMAN INTERACTION NETWORKS: CONSIDERATIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
Journal Title: Journal of Globalization Studies - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
A range of important global phenomena may be studied with reference to changes in the size of global interaction systems. Without creating a method by which to map systemic boundaries over the long historical term, we can have little to say about ‘globalization’ and its current challenges, the long-term increases in the sizes of cities, states, and systems, and their periodic retrogressions, the trajectories that are generated by trade network mergers, political engulfments, and increasing inequality. Undertaking these questions across the widest possible range of geographic systems will also allow us to escape the confines of Eurocentric analysis. In forthcoming work, Chase-Dunn, Inoue, and Neal propose a series of ‘high-bar’ criteria for establishing systemic boundaries. The articles that follow address this issue historically, conceptually, and critically.
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Robert Denemark, Thomas D. Hall
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